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File:This photo of David Cameron and Boris Johnson, and friends of theirs in their Bullingdon Club livery, and similar photos, have been widely reproduced and commented upon.jpg
This photo of David Cameron and Boris Johnson, and friends of theirs in their Bullingdon Club livery, have been widely reproduced and commented upon... (1) Edward Sebastian Grigg, (2) David Cameron, (3) Ralph Perry Robinson, (4) Ewen Fergusson, (5) Matthew Benson, (6) Sebastian James, (7) Jonathan Ford, (8) Boris Johnson, Harry Eastwood.
File:Who doctored the toffs....jpg
Journalist Peter Hitchens noted that this photo of members of the Bullingdon Club, taken in the early 1990s, has been doctored. At least two individuals images have been incompletely airbrushed out of the image. Individuals in the photo include George Osborne, Nathaniel Rothschild, Harry Mount, Jason Gissing, Chris Coleridge, Lupus von Maltzahn, Peter Holmes a Court and the late Mark Petre.[1]
The Bullingdon Club is a long-established club for students at the University of Oxford.[2]
Originally founded as a club to support sports, at Oxford, like cricket, by the late 20th century, its members were notorious for vandalism, sexism, drunken rowdiness, and elitism.[2] By the 21st century the bad behaviour of club members, like future Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom David Cameron and Boris Johnson had caused the club membership to dwindle.[3] In 2018 the Oxford Conservative Party Association barred Club members from leadership positions within the Association.[4]
When Johnson was Prime Minister he was criticized for appointing individuals, who had been his friends in the club, to posts for which they seem unqualified.[2]
Johnson was widely criticized for appointing former Bullingdon Club member Ewen Fergusson to the Committee on Standards in Public Life - a committee intended to rout out corrupt activities.[5] Ferguson was the 173 choice in a ranking of possible candidates for committee membership.[6]
Even after the earlier criticism for appointing other friends of his, on September 2, 2022 - less than a week before his scheduled retirement as Prime Minister, Johnson appointed former club member Harry Mount to the House of Lords appointments commission.[7] Mount is the author of "The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson".
The club was mocked by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall, and in the 2014 film The Riot Club.[8][2]
Members include
| name | period | notes |
|---|---|---|
| Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | 1870s | Queen Victoria's youngest son[9] |
| Rama VI | 1900s | King of Siam (1881–1925)[10] |
| Prince Paul of Yugoslavia | 1910s | [11] |
| Edward VIII | 1913 | His mother Queen Mary, forced him to resign.[12][13][14] |
| Frederick IX of Denmark | 1920s | [13] |
| Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home | 1850s | Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire (1890–1915) and Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire (1879–1880) |
| Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin | 1860s | [15] |
| Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | 1860s | [16] |
| Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long | 1870s | The club was bankrupt, when he assumed the Presidency.[17] According to his autobiography he was successful at reducing the vandalism of his fellow members. |
| William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough | 1870s | [13] |
| George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston | 1880s | [13] |
| George Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall | 1890s | [18] |
| Prince Felix Yussupov | 1900s | Later accused of playing a role in the murder of Rasputin[19] |
| Jack Gordon | 1900s | Club President[19] |
| Prince Serge Obolensky (1890–1978)[20] | ||
| Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch | 1910s | [20] |
| Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford | 1920s | In spite of his privileged upbringing, he became a socialist.[21] |
| Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington | 1930s | [22] |
| John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch | 1940s | [23] |
| Lord Montagu of Beaulieu | 1940s | Left Oxford in 1945 after a fight with the Dramatic Club left his room wrecked.[24] |
| David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie | 1940s | [25] |
| Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley | 1940s | [26] |
| Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath | 1950s | [27] |
| Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo | 1950s | [25] |
| Michael Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian | 1950s | Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party (2001–2005) and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1998–2001)[28] |
| Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch | 1970s | [25] |
| Count Gottfried von Bismarck | 1980s | [29] |
| Shivraj Singh of Jodhpur | 1990s | [25] |
| Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington | 1990s | [25] |
| Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (1988–)[30] | ||
| Edward Sebastian Grigg | 1980s | |
| David Cameron | 1980s | Later served as Prime Minister. |
| Ralph Perry Robinson | 1980s | |
| Ewen Fergusson | 1980s | |
| Matthew Benson | 1980s | |
| Sebastian James | 1980s | |
| Jonathan Ford | 1980s | |
| Boris Johnson | 1980s | Later served as Prime Minister. |
| Harry Eastwood | 1980s | |
| George Osborne | 1990s | Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer.[31][32] |
| Nathaniel Rothschild | 1990s | A hedge fund financier.[31] Had a high-profile breach in his friendship with fellow Bullingdon member George Osborne. |
| Jason Gissing | 1990s | A founder of Ocado, a successful online grocery delivery service.[33][34] |
| Chris Coleridge | 1990s | From the Coleridge family of publishers, he founded a firm that successfully marketed "vitamin water".[34] |
| Lupus von Maltzahn | 1990s | A German from a family with inherited wealth.[34] |
| Mark Petre | 1990s | Heir to a hereditary title, died in 2004, if his father had pre-deceased him he would have been the 19th Baron Petre.[34] |
| Peter Holmes a Court | 1990s | A theatre empressario and owner of a Rugby club.[34] |
| Michael Gove | 1990s | "Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, former president of the Oxford Union".[35] |
| Adam Bruce | 1990s | "Son of the Earl of Elgin and incumbent Unicorn Pursuivant of Arms".[35] |
| Edward Vaizey | 1990s | "son of Lord Vaizey and the Shadow Minister for Culture".[35] |
| Nicholas Boles | 1990s | "Founder of Think Tank Policy Exchange, and conservative activist."[35] |
| Steven Hilton | 1990s | "director of strategy for Cameron and godfather of Cameron’s children."[35] |
| Robin Leigh Pemberton | 1990s | Later served as Governor of the Bank of England.[36] |
References
- ↑ Peter Hitchens. Who doctored the toffs?, Mail on Sunday, 2008-10-25. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “To the left of the middle, there’s a mysterious gap where somebody ought to be standing but isn’t.” mirror
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Harriet Sherwood. Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club, The Guardian, 2019-07-07. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “Now new light has been shed on the outrageous antics of the Bullingdon Club – the Oxford University group that may be about to produce its second British prime minister – by someone intimately connected to it during Boris Johnson’s membership.” mirror
- ↑ Brian Wheeler. David Cameron: Life and times of new UK Prime Minister, BBC News, 2010-05-11. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “He was captain of Brasenose College's tennis team and a member of the Bullingdon dining club, famed for its hard drinking and bad behaviour, an episode Mr Cameron has always refused to talk about.” mirror
- ↑ Barbara Ellen. The Bullingdon is on its uppers. Let’s all celebrate by trashing a restaurant, The Guardian, 2018-10-14. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “While past members include David Cameron, Boris Johnson and George Osborne, people recently invited to join the Bullingdon have been turning it down, those who join are branded “losers” and, in 2016, it was said to be on the brink of closure for lack of members.” mirror
- ↑ Rachel Wearmouth. Boris Johnson's Bullingdon club 'chum' selected out of 173 applicants for sleaze watchdog, The Mirror, 2021-08-02. Retrieved on 2022-09-07.
- ↑ Jon Stone. Government passed over 171 candidates to pick Bullingdon Club ‘chum’ of Boris Johnson for sleaze watchdog role, The Independent, 2021-08-02. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “The longtime friend of the prime minister was appointed to scrutinise him after an advisory panel had “carefully considered all applications”, she said.”
- ↑ Matthew Weaver, Henry Dyer. Boris Johnson gives peerages job to author of book on his ‘wit and wisdom’, The Guardian, 2022-09-02. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “Boris Johnson has sparked fresh accusations of cronyism after choosing the author of a book on his 'wit and wisdom' to help oversee the appointment of new peers to the House of Lords.” mirror
- ↑ Eleanor Bley Griffiths. Did Decline and Fall's Bollinger Club really exist? Evelyn Waugh and his Bullingdon Club inspiration, Radio Times, 2017-03-31. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “The Bollinger Club is, of course, a barely-concealed version of the real-life Bullingdon Club.” mirror
- ↑ Charlotte Zeepvat (1998). Prince Leopold: The Untold Story of Queen Victoria's Youngest Son. Sutton. ISBN 978-0-7509-1308-9.
- ↑ Rong Syamananda (1986). A History of Thailand. Chulalongkorn University.
- ↑ Neil Balfour, Sally Mackay (1980). Paul of Yugoslavia: Britain's Maligned Friend. H. Hamilton. ISBN 978-0-241-10392-0. Retrieved on 2024-04-26.
- ↑ WALES IN TROUBLE OVER CLUB SUPPER; Queen Mary Orders the Prince to Resign from the Lively Bullingdon at Oxford., New York Times, 1913-05-28. Retrieved on 2022-09-07.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 J.G. Sinclair (2007). Portrait of Oxford. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4067-4585-6.
- ↑ SMASH WINDOWS AT OXFORD; Bullingdon Club Students Stage Disorder at Christ Church College., New York Times, 1927-02-23, p. A1. Retrieved on 2022-09-07.
- ↑ Virginia Cowles (1956). Gay Monarch: The Life and Pleasures of Edward VII.. Harper & Brothers.
- ↑ Nicholas Freeman (2011). title=1895: Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain. Edinburgh University Press, 55. ISBN 978-0-7486-4056-0.
- ↑ Walter Long (1923). Memories. “I am no authority on finance, but I feel entitled to claim that I did some good work for the Bullingdon Club. When I became President of the Club, my predecessor in office informed me that it was bankrupt.”
- ↑ James Miller (2003). Fertile Fortune: The Story of Tyntesfield. National Trust National Trust (Great Britain). ISBN 978-0-7078-0376-0.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Prince Yusupoff Defended in Rasputin Case; Fellow-Collegian at Oxford Tells of Nobleman's Career There, and Says It Is Impossible to Associate Him with a Murder, The New York Times, 14 January 1917, p. T3.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Serge Obolensky (1958). One Man in His Time: The Memoirs of Serge Obolensky. McDowell, Obolensky, 86, 110, 116. mirror
- ↑ The Earl of Longford, The Independent, 2001-08-06. Retrieved on 2024-04-26. “His friends were fashionable Conservative intellectuals including Evelyn Waugh and later Randolph Churchill. He was a member of the Bullingdon and rode in an hilarious point-to-point.”
- ↑ The Duke of Wellington – obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 2013-12-31. Retrieved on 2024-04-26. “Although Valerian wanted to go straight into the Army, his father sent him to read History and Languages at New College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Bullingdon Club; at the same time he enjoyed London society, dancing with suitable girls at grand balls and less suitable ones in subterranean nightclubs.”
- ↑ The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, The Independent, 2007-09-06. Retrieved on 2024-04-26. “Having survived U-boats, he went to Christ Church, Oxford and read Modern History. Although he was persuaded to become a member of the supremely toff Bullingdon Club, his experience in the Navy made sure that his life would be far fuller than that of a ne'er-do-well aristocrat.”
- ↑ A champion of British heritage: the life and times of Beaulieu's Lord Montagu (From Bournemouth Echo), Bournemouth Echo. “In 1945, he joined the Grenadier Guards and was posted with a peacekeeping force in Palestine. Afterwards, he read modern history at New College Oxford. However, he felt obliged to leave during his second year of university, after an altercation between the Bullingdon Club – of which he was a member – and the Oxford University Dramatic Society led to his room being wrecked.”
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 Nick Mutch, Jack Myers, Adam Lusher, Jonathan Owen. General Election 2015: Photographic history of Bullingdon Club tracked down – including new picture of David Cameron in his finery, The Independent, 2015-05-05. Retrieved on 2024-04-26. “The new image seen by The Independent was taken in 1988. It was spotted in the Oxford branch of Ede & Ravenscroft, robe-makers to the Queen and the tailoring company that makes Bullingdon Club outfits – at a reputed cost of £3,000 per gentleman.”
- ↑ Andrew Roth. The Rev Lord Beaumont of Whitley, The Guardian, 2008-04-11. Retrieved on 2024-04-26. “There he ran the Bullingdon club and founded the Wagers club, devoted to "bringing back the devil-may-care atmosphere of the Regency Bucks".”
- ↑ 7th Marquess of Bath (1999). Career and activities: settling into my undergraduate identity. “...at the start of the Trinity term I was elected into the Bullingdon...”
- ↑ Bullingdon Club 1966.
- ↑ Count Gottfried von Bismarck Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 2007-07-05. Retrieved on 2007-07-05.
- ↑ Hugh Grosvenor is the new Duke of Westminster - but who are Britain's other most eligible bachelor aristocrats?, The Daily Telegraph, 2016-08-12. Retrieved on 2024-04-26.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 The whiff of scandal stinks in crisis-struck U.K., New York Times, 2008-10-22. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “As for the 37-year-old Osborne, who has been a member of Parliament since the age of 30, he and Rothschild were close friends at Oxford where they belonged to the elite Bullingdon club, an exclusive drinking society whose celebrated wild parties sometimes ended with the destruction of the restaurant or pub where they were held.”
- ↑ Landon Thomas Jr.. In Britain, a Soaring Deficit Lifts a Hawk, New York Times, 2009-10-16, p. B1. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “Mr. Cameron, who is close to Mr. Osborne and comes from a similar background, has transcended the ignominy of his membership in the Bullingdon Club, the elite drinking enclave at Oxford. By contrast, Mr. Osborne seems far less removed from the haughty picture of himself and his club members, garbed in bow ties and tails, that has come to define the view that the recast Conservatives still lack a common touch.”
- ↑ Steve Busfield. George Osborne, Nat Rothschild and the curious case of a Bullingdon Club picture, The Guardian, 2008-10-26. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “To the left of the middle, there's a mysterious gap where somebody ought to be standing but isn't. Odder still, there's a patch of shirt-front and waistcoat there, with no person attached”
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 34.4 Oxford 1992: Portrait of a 'classless' Tory, Daily Mail, 2007-04-07. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. mirror
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 The Bullingdon Club, Iconic photos, 2010-03-14. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “Two figures on left of (6) and (7) were blacked out before the photo was released, causing wild allegations. Their identities are yet unknown.”
- ↑ Tom Mutch. Breaking the Bullingdon Club Omertà: Secret Lives of the Men Who Run Britain, Daily Beast, 2020-07-07. Retrieved on 2024-04-24. “One photo, from 1951, shows the former provost of Eton and ambassador to the United States, Anthony Acland, as well as the former governor of the Bank of England, Robin Leigh Pemberton.”
